Thread (12 messages) 12 messages, 5 authors, 2025-10-08

Re: [PATCH net-next v5 2/2] net/smc: handle -ENOMEM from smc_wr_alloc_link_mem gracefully

From: Dust Li <dust.li@linux.alibaba.com>
Date: 2025-09-29 01:51:01
Also in: linux-doc, linux-rdma, linux-s390, lkml

On 2025-09-29 02:00:01, Halil Pasic wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Currently if a -ENOMEM from smc_wr_alloc_link_mem() is handled by
giving up and going the way of a TCP fallback. This was reasonable
before the sizes of the allocations there were compile time constants
and reasonably small. But now those are actually configurable.

So instead of giving up, keep retrying with half of the requested size
unless we dip below the old static sizes -- then give up! In terms of
numbers that means we give up when it is certain that we at best would
end up allocating less than 16 send WR buffers or less than 48 recv WR
buffers. This is to avoid regressions due to having fewer buffers
compared the static values of the past.

Please note that SMC-R is supposed to be an optimisation over TCP, and
falling back to TCP is superior to establishing an SMC connection that
is going to perform worse. If the memory allocation fails (and we
propagate -ENOMEM), we fall back to TCP.

Preserve (modulo truncation) the ratio of send/recv WR buffer counts.

Signed-off-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Wenjia Zhang <wenjia@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mahanta Jambigi <mjambigi@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Sidraya Jayagond <sidraya@linux.ibm.com>
---
Documentation/networking/smc-sysctl.rst |  8 ++++--
net/smc/smc_core.c                      | 34 +++++++++++++++++--------
net/smc/smc_core.h                      |  2 ++
net/smc/smc_wr.c                        | 28 ++++++++++----------
4 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/smc-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/smc-sysctl.rst
index 5de4893ef3e7..4a5b4c89bc97 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/smc-sysctl.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/smc-sysctl.rst
@@ -85,7 +85,9 @@ smcr_max_send_wr - INTEGER
	Please be aware that all the buffers need to be allocated as a physically
	continuous array in which each element is a single buffer and has the size
-	of SMC_WR_BUF_SIZE (48) bytes. If the allocation fails we give up much
+	of SMC_WR_BUF_SIZE (48) bytes. If the allocation fails, we keep retrying
+	with half of the buffer count until it is ether successful or (unlikely)
+	we dip below the old hard coded value which is 16 where we give up much
	like before having this control.

	Default: 16
@@ -103,7 +105,9 @@ smcr_max_recv_wr - INTEGER
	Please be aware that all the buffers need to be allocated as a physically
	continuous array in which each element is a single buffer and has the size
-	of SMC_WR_BUF_SIZE (48) bytes. If the allocation fails we give up much
+	of SMC_WR_BUF_SIZE (48) bytes. If the allocation fails, we keep retrying
+	with half of the buffer count until it is ether successful or (unlikely)
+	we dip below the old hard coded value which is 16 where we give up much
	like before having this control.

	Default: 48
diff --git a/net/smc/smc_core.c b/net/smc/smc_core.c
index be0c2da83d2b..e4eabc83719e 100644
--- a/net/smc/smc_core.c
+++ b/net/smc/smc_core.c
@@ -810,6 +810,8 @@ int smcr_link_init(struct smc_link_group *lgr, struct smc_link *lnk,
	lnk->clearing = 0;
	lnk->path_mtu = lnk->smcibdev->pattr[lnk->ibport - 1].active_mtu;
	lnk->link_id = smcr_next_link_id(lgr);
+	lnk->max_send_wr = lgr->max_send_wr;
+	lnk->max_recv_wr = lgr->max_recv_wr;
	lnk->lgr = lgr;
	smc_lgr_hold(lgr); /* lgr_put in smcr_link_clear() */
	lnk->link_idx = link_idx;
@@ -836,27 +838,39 @@ int smcr_link_init(struct smc_link_group *lgr, struct smc_link *lnk,
	rc = smc_llc_link_init(lnk);
	if (rc)
		goto out;
-	rc = smc_wr_alloc_link_mem(lnk);
-	if (rc)
-		goto clear_llc_lnk;
	rc = smc_ib_create_protection_domain(lnk);
	if (rc)
-		goto free_link_mem;
-	rc = smc_ib_create_queue_pair(lnk);
-	if (rc)
-		goto dealloc_pd;
+		goto clear_llc_lnk;
+	do {
+		rc = smc_ib_create_queue_pair(lnk);
+		if (rc)
+			goto dealloc_pd;
+		rc = smc_wr_alloc_link_mem(lnk);
+		if (!rc)
+			break;
+		else if (rc != -ENOMEM) /* give up */
+			goto destroy_qp;
+		/* retry with smaller ... */
+		lnk->max_send_wr /= 2;
+		lnk->max_recv_wr /= 2;
+		/* ... unless droping below old SMC_WR_BUF_SIZE */
+		if (lnk->max_send_wr < 16 || lnk->max_recv_wr < 48)
+			goto destroy_qp;
+		smc_ib_destroy_queue_pair(lnk);
+	} while (1);
+
	rc = smc_wr_create_link(lnk);
	if (rc)
-		goto destroy_qp;
+		goto free_link_mem;
	lnk->state = SMC_LNK_ACTIVATING;
	return 0;

+free_link_mem:
+	smc_wr_free_link_mem(lnk);
destroy_qp:
	smc_ib_destroy_queue_pair(lnk);
dealloc_pd:
	smc_ib_dealloc_protection_domain(lnk);
-free_link_mem:
-	smc_wr_free_link_mem(lnk);
clear_llc_lnk:
	smc_llc_link_clear(lnk, false);
out:
diff --git a/net/smc/smc_core.h b/net/smc/smc_core.h
index 8d06c8bb14e9..5c18f08a4c8a 100644
--- a/net/smc/smc_core.h
+++ b/net/smc/smc_core.h
@@ -175,6 +175,8 @@ struct smc_link {
	struct completion	llc_testlink_resp; /* wait for rx of testlink */
	int			llc_testlink_time; /* testlink interval */
	atomic_t		conn_cnt; /* connections on this link */
+	u16			max_send_wr;
+	u16			max_recv_wr;
Here, you've moved max_send_wr/max_recv_wr from the link group to individual links.
This means we can now have different max_send_wr/max_recv_wr values on two
different links within the same link group.

Since in Alibaba we doesn't use multi-link configurations, we haven't tested
this scenario. Have you tested the link-down handling process in a multi-link
setup?

Otherwise, the patch looks good to me.

Best regards,
Dust
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
};

/* For now we just allow one parallel link per link group. The SMC protocol
diff --git a/net/smc/smc_wr.c b/net/smc/smc_wr.c
index 883fb0f1ce43..5feafa98ab1a 100644
--- a/net/smc/smc_wr.c
+++ b/net/smc/smc_wr.c
@@ -547,9 +547,9 @@ void smc_wr_remember_qp_attr(struct smc_link *lnk)
		    IB_QP_DEST_QPN,
		    &init_attr);

-	lnk->wr_tx_cnt = min_t(size_t, lnk->lgr->max_send_wr,
+	lnk->wr_tx_cnt = min_t(size_t, lnk->max_send_wr,
			       lnk->qp_attr.cap.max_send_wr);
-	lnk->wr_rx_cnt = min_t(size_t, lnk->lgr->max_recv_wr,
+	lnk->wr_rx_cnt = min_t(size_t, lnk->max_recv_wr,
			       lnk->qp_attr.cap.max_recv_wr);
}
@@ -741,51 +741,51 @@ int smc_wr_alloc_lgr_mem(struct smc_link_group *lgr)
int smc_wr_alloc_link_mem(struct smc_link *link)
{
	/* allocate link related memory */
-	link->wr_tx_bufs = kcalloc(link->lgr->max_send_wr,
+	link->wr_tx_bufs = kcalloc(link->max_send_wr,
				   SMC_WR_BUF_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
	if (!link->wr_tx_bufs)
		goto no_mem;
-	link->wr_rx_bufs = kcalloc(link->lgr->max_recv_wr, link->wr_rx_buflen,
+	link->wr_rx_bufs = kcalloc(link->max_recv_wr, link->wr_rx_buflen,
				   GFP_KERNEL);
	if (!link->wr_rx_bufs)
		goto no_mem_wr_tx_bufs;
-	link->wr_tx_ibs = kcalloc(link->lgr->max_send_wr,
+	link->wr_tx_ibs = kcalloc(link->max_send_wr,
				  sizeof(link->wr_tx_ibs[0]), GFP_KERNEL);
	if (!link->wr_tx_ibs)
		goto no_mem_wr_rx_bufs;
-	link->wr_rx_ibs = kcalloc(link->lgr->max_recv_wr,
+	link->wr_rx_ibs = kcalloc(link->max_recv_wr,
				  sizeof(link->wr_rx_ibs[0]),
				  GFP_KERNEL);
	if (!link->wr_rx_ibs)
		goto no_mem_wr_tx_ibs;
-	link->wr_tx_rdmas = kcalloc(link->lgr->max_send_wr,
+	link->wr_tx_rdmas = kcalloc(link->max_send_wr,
				    sizeof(link->wr_tx_rdmas[0]),
				    GFP_KERNEL);
	if (!link->wr_tx_rdmas)
		goto no_mem_wr_rx_ibs;
-	link->wr_tx_rdma_sges = kcalloc(link->lgr->max_send_wr,
+	link->wr_tx_rdma_sges = kcalloc(link->max_send_wr,
					sizeof(link->wr_tx_rdma_sges[0]),
					GFP_KERNEL);
	if (!link->wr_tx_rdma_sges)
		goto no_mem_wr_tx_rdmas;
-	link->wr_tx_sges = kcalloc(link->lgr->max_send_wr, sizeof(link->wr_tx_sges[0]),
+	link->wr_tx_sges = kcalloc(link->max_send_wr, sizeof(link->wr_tx_sges[0]),
				   GFP_KERNEL);
	if (!link->wr_tx_sges)
		goto no_mem_wr_tx_rdma_sges;
-	link->wr_rx_sges = kcalloc(link->lgr->max_recv_wr,
+	link->wr_rx_sges = kcalloc(link->max_recv_wr,
				   sizeof(link->wr_rx_sges[0]) * link->wr_rx_sge_cnt,
				   GFP_KERNEL);
	if (!link->wr_rx_sges)
		goto no_mem_wr_tx_sges;
-	link->wr_tx_mask = bitmap_zalloc(link->lgr->max_send_wr, GFP_KERNEL);
+	link->wr_tx_mask = bitmap_zalloc(link->max_send_wr, GFP_KERNEL);
	if (!link->wr_tx_mask)
		goto no_mem_wr_rx_sges;
-	link->wr_tx_pends = kcalloc(link->lgr->max_send_wr,
+	link->wr_tx_pends = kcalloc(link->max_send_wr,
				    sizeof(link->wr_tx_pends[0]),
				    GFP_KERNEL);
	if (!link->wr_tx_pends)
		goto no_mem_wr_tx_mask;
-	link->wr_tx_compl = kcalloc(link->lgr->max_send_wr,
+	link->wr_tx_compl = kcalloc(link->max_send_wr,
				    sizeof(link->wr_tx_compl[0]),
				    GFP_KERNEL);
	if (!link->wr_tx_compl)
@@ -906,7 +906,7 @@ int smc_wr_create_link(struct smc_link *lnk)
		goto dma_unmap;
	}
	smc_wr_init_sge(lnk);
-	bitmap_zero(lnk->wr_tx_mask, lnk->lgr->max_send_wr);
+	bitmap_zero(lnk->wr_tx_mask, lnk->max_send_wr);
	init_waitqueue_head(&lnk->wr_tx_wait);
	rc = percpu_ref_init(&lnk->wr_tx_refs, smcr_wr_tx_refs_free, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
	if (rc)
-- 
2.48.1
Keyboard shortcuts
hback out one level
jnext message in thread
kprevious message in thread
ldrill in
Escclose help / fold thread tree
?toggle this help